Before the option was added to iPhone's control center, there were several apps that would activate the flash as a flashlight.
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iPad Pro iPad Pro 9.7 has no option in control center for flashlight, despite having a flash?
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I was using your words. Fumbling for your phone. Look, Apple will implement the feature and in the meantime you can use the screen of your iPad rather than the flash. And you'll see it's no less practical to hold the iPad one direction rather than the other for the purposes you've described.I don't know about you, but I can easily just hold an iPad without "fumbling around" with it.
Sure, it might not be an issue when you wake up in the middle of the night and your pupils are already dilated, but if you were just using your iPad and have to find your way around in the dark, it's a lot harder to see.
I honestly don't understand why anyone is arguing about having a flashlight on an iPad.
Again, first world problems.
I just noticed this too. It's funny how you don't think about how useful little things like this are until you don't have them.
I guess I'll have to go back to my old method of opening the camera, switching to video mode, and switching the video flash on in order to use the iPad as a flashlight until Apple updates the software.
If you were trying to use my "words" against me, then you failed. I didn't say fumbling around with an iPhone. I said fumbling around in the dark trying to find my phone.
If you're already holding your iPad, what are you fumbling around for?
Ah, yes. Like you fumble around for your tv remote every time you need it.
I'm well aware what you said. You mistake my actions for trying to use the word in the exact manner you did. I had no intention of doing so because, frankly, the notion is quite comical. I'm getting a good laugh out of your apparent nocturnal ineptitude.
I'm well aware what you said. You mistake my actions for trying to use the word in the exact manner you did. I had no intention of doing so because, frankly, the notion is quite comical. I'm getting a good laugh out of your apparent nocturnal ineptitude.
Honestly, it's laughable.
The cry babies in this thread moaning about the lack of a flashlight on an iPad.
What did you do before you had an iPad? Just hold tight and not for for a wee wee or a poo poo during the night?
I reckon the vast majority of people have their phones by their bed, but still don't have the "need" to use it and it's flashlight to make their way to the toilet.
Personally, I know where my toilet is asI've lived here for 8 years and have kinda gotten used to making my way there in the wee (see what I did there?) small hours.
It's obviously dark, but it's not 100% pitch black so that I can't see anything and I think my wife would be pretty annoyed if I woke her up wandering around with a flashlight.
It's just a(nother) worrying sign of the over entitled world in which we live IMO.
The cry babies in this thread moaning about the lack of a flashlight on an iPad.
What did you do before you had an iPad? Just hold tight and not for for a wee wee or a poo poo during the night?
I reckon the vast majority of people have their phones by their bed, but still don't have the "need" to use it and it's flashlight to make their way to the toilet.
Personally, I know where my toilet is asI've lived here for 8 years and have kinda gotten used to making my way there in the wee (see what I did there?) small hours.
It's obviously dark, but it's not 100% pitch black so that I can't see anything and I think my wife would be pretty annoyed if I woke her up wandering around with a flashlight.
It's just a(nother) worrying sign of the over entitled world in which we live IMO.
Why is everyone in the thread so strange. Hey Apple wake up and put a flashlight option in the new iPad Pro please
Does anyone find it funny that while the new 9.7” ipad comes with a flash, it lacks the flashlight shortcut in the control centre that the iphone uses to activate it?
I tested it with other flashlight apps and they work. Then again, the ipad still lacks a default calculator app and only recently gained a clock app. Or perhaps Apple sees no point in supporting a feature present in only one ipad model and which people are unlikely to use?
I tested it with other flashlight apps and they work. Then again, the ipad still lacks a default calculator app and only recently gained a clock app. Or perhaps Apple sees no point in supporting a feature present in only one ipad model and which people are unlikely to use?
Huh? This makes no sense. Why exactly can't they add the flashlight to an iPad with a a flash?
It's most definitely through software update, but knowing Apple they're probably thinking how you're thinking and not put a flashlight toggle because people 'won't use it'.
With regards to a calculator, download WDGTS.
It's a collection of extremely useful widgets for Notification Center, including a calculator, month calendar, battery indicator, currency converter, picture frame, app launcher, contact launcher, memory manager, network monitor and time zones.
It's brilliant ...